Originally Posted by
vyperdriver
I have been watching the bantering back and forth on the wide body fleet etc. and I realize if your just looking at 777 I could see folks point on the small number of pilots likely to ever get to fly it, however I compiled the list of aircraft types and numbers comparing United to Delta and it doesn't seem to me that we are that far off when speaking in terms of large and/or wide body hulls. Including the 757's from both companies according to wiki...United has 286 wide body (including 757) aircraft while Delta has 283. United has orders for 33 additional wide body aircraft and we currently have 52 on the books. So it would seem to me that we have a fairly decent sized fleet and contract discussions amongst the wide body aircraft are certainly relevant. What am I missing?
Personally. I'm optimistic about the future of our international fleet with the combination of our excellent network planning team and future orders of 25 A350s and 25 330NEOs.
Most would probably point to the fact United and American have more pilots on the top pay scale than us, which has more to do with paybanding. If we had the 330 and 765 paybanded to top rate also we'd have similar numbers.
Twin Aisle jet totals:
DAL: 158
UAL: 175
AA: 148